Technology

iBamboo Passive Acoustic Amplifier

iBamboo Passive Acoustic Amplifier

It’s uncanny how well even the most basic passive acoustic amplifier can improve the sound that emanates from tiny handset speakers. Even though I have yet to experience the pure acoustic awesomeness of the iBamboo from New York area Etsy member Anatoliy Omelchenko, I still find that the design compliments the elegance of the iPhone 4.

Nebulophone With Custom Housing

Nebulophone With Custom Housing

Michael Cochrane of London, the UK, built a nebulophone, a cool synthesizer sold by Bleep Labs. I got my Nebulophone (from the Maker Shed) soldered and working a couple of weeks back, and have since completed a housing for it… I added an amplifier circuit and speaker so I could hear the Nebulophone without headphones. […]

Android Geiger Counter

Android Geiger Counter

Use the camera in your Android smartphone to detect radiation with the Radioactivity Counter app from Rolf-Dieter Klein. Just place a small piece of black tape over the camera lens, calibrate for ambient noise, and you’ll be ready to take readings in no time. The app uses the device’s built-in CMOS sensor to detect primary […]

Alt.CES: Tablets are for Embedding

Alt.CES: Tablets are for Embedding

Zigurd Mednieks checks in from CES In trying to find interesting products for makers, I came across some machine screws that are smaller than fleas, 0.2mm across the shaft. The Matsumoto Industries product was exhibited using a microscope. If you are making something very small, that’s your screw. They were too small for me to […]

MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool, this week, from Robert Birkenes, is a lovely work-in-progress shot showing off his build of Ross Orr’s Panoramic Pinhole Camera project from MAKE Vol 09.I’m also partial to Michael Jones’ shot of the wooden clockworks he’s building based on Clayton Boyer’s plans. Oh, and that wooden spool […]

Cut a Rug in the Dance Shanty

Cut a Rug in the Dance Shanty

The Art Shanty Projects on Medicine Lake in Plymouth, MN “is a four-week exhibition that is part sculpture park, part artist residency, and part social experiment, inspired by traditional ice fishing houses that dot the state’s lakes in winter.” Jordan Husney helped out with the Dance Shanty, “an innocuous white structure on a frozen lake, […]